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== White House Opposes Anthropic's Mythos Expansion == | == White House Opposes Anthropic's Mythos Expansion == | ||
On '''April 30, 2026''', the '''Trump administration''' told '''Anthropic''' it opposes the company's plan to expand access to '''Mythos''', its advanced cybersecurity AI model capable of autonomously discovering zero-day vulnerabilities, to approximately 70 additional organizations. The White House cited security concerns about potential misuse and compute constraints that could degrade government access. Meanwhile, the administration is also developing an executive action to bypass the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic. The '''National Security Agency''' (NSA) is currently among the agencies using Mythos to probe for vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and other widely-used software.<ref name="tnw-mythos">[https://thenextweb.com/news/white-house-opposes-anthropic-mythos-expansion The Next Web, "White House opposes Anthropic's Mythos expansion," April 30, 2026]</ref><ref name="bloomberg-nsa">[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/nsa-testing-anthropic-s-mythos-to-find-flaws-in-microsoft-tech Bloomberg, "NSA Is Testing Anthropic's Mythos to Find Flaws in Microsoft Tech," April 30, 2026]</ref> | On '''April 30, 2026''', the '''Trump administration''' told '''Anthropic''' it opposes the company's plan to expand access to '''Mythos''', its advanced cybersecurity AI model capable of autonomously discovering zero-day vulnerabilities, to approximately 70 additional organizations. The White House cited security concerns about potential misuse and compute constraints that could degrade government access. Meanwhile, the administration is also developing an executive action to bypass the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic. The '''National Security Agency''' (NSA) is currently among the agencies using Mythos to probe for vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and other widely-used software.<ref name="tnw-mythos">[https://thenextweb.com/news/white-house-opposes-anthropic-mythos-expansion The Next Web, "White House opposes Anthropic's Mythos expansion," April 30, 2026]</ref><ref name="bloomberg-nsa">[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/nsa-testing-anthropic-s-mythos-to-find-flaws-in-microsoft-tech Bloomberg, "NSA Is Testing Anthropic's Mythos to Find Flaws in Microsoft Tech," April 30, 2026]</ref> | ||
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== Hegseth Calls Anthropic CEO Amodei an "Ideological Lunatic" (April 30, 2026) == | |||
In a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on '''April 30, 2026''', Secretary of Defense '''Pete Hegseth''' called '''Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei''' an "ideological lunatic," escalating the ongoing dispute between the Department of Defense and the AI company over terms of service for military use of AI systems. When Senator Jacky Rosen (D-Nevada) asked whether Hegseth could guarantee a human would be in the loop for AI-driven targeting decisions, Hegseth focused on Amodei personally and criticized Anthropic's refusal to "accept our terms of service."<ref name="verge-hegseth">[https://www.theverge.com/news/767114/hegseth-dario-amodei-anthropic-ideological-lunatic The Verge, "Pete Hegseth goes out of his way to call Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei an 'ideological lunatic,'" April 30, 2026]</ref> | |||
The heated exchange comes amid broader tensions over Anthropic's '''Mythos''' cybersecurity AI model. The White House had earlier on April 30 told Anthropic it opposes expanding Mythos access to approximately 70 additional companies, citing compute constraints and security concerns. The NSA is currently among the agencies testing Mythos to find vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and widely used software.<ref name="bloomberg-nsa">[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/nsa-said-to-test-anthropic-s-mythos-model-on-microsoft-products Bloomberg, "NSA Said to Test Anthropic's Mythos Model on Microsoft Products," April 30, 2026]</ref> | |||
''See also: [[News-White-House-Opposes-Anthropic-Mythos-2026|White House Opposes Anthropic Mythos Expansion]]'' | |||
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== US Officials Preparing AI Policy Memo for National Security Agencies (April 30, 2026) == | |||
US officials are preparing a wide-ranging '''AI policy memorandum''' that would outline rules for national security agencies' use of artificial intelligence, according to sources cited by Bloomberg on '''April 30, 2026'''. The memo would include guidance to avoid over-reliance on any single AI vendor — a provision relevant to the Pentagon's current dispute with Anthropic and its deepening relationship with Google's AI products.<ref name="bloomberg-memo">[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/us-officials-said-to-prepare-ai-policy-memo-for-national-security Bloomberg, "US Officials Said to Prepare AI Policy Memo for National Security Agencies," April 30, 2026]</ref> | |||
The memo represents the latest in a series of Trump administration actions to establish federal AI governance frameworks, following the White House National Policy Framework for AI announced earlier in April 2026. | |||
''See also: [[News-White-House-National-Policy-Framework-AI-2026|White House National Policy Framework for AI]]'' | |||
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== References == | == References == | ||